Neutrinos are cosmic tricksters, paradoxically hardly there but lethal to stars significantly more massive than the sun.

The world's most powerful telescopes, including the James Webb Space Telescope and FAST, are revolutionizing our ...

A mobile app lets citizen scientists flag anomalies in space that are hard for computers to detect.

"This discovery heralds a broader understanding of the diversity in massive stars' deaths and a need for deeper ...

When white dwarfs—the hot remnants of stars like our sun—are orbited closely by another star, they sometimes steal mass away ...

Stars often die with a final burst of beauty. For the first time, astronomers have captured visual proof that a star can ...

The smoking gun of the creation of lithium in explosions on white dwarf stars may have been found, in a spike of gamma rays ...